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An Intimate Trip, Great For Beginners
The Salt is a great place for a beginner to learn to fly fish
The casting is easy and you can usually cast large, easily seen dry flies, which always makes for a fun day of fly fishing. Cutthroat love to take flies on the surface so you will probably spend most of your time fishing dry flies.
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Character of the Water
The Salt River is a small intimate river with brushy banks that flows out of the Salt River Range through Star Valley, Wyoming and eventually empties into Palisades Reservoir. It has a good population of Cutthroat and Brown Trout, which average from 12 to 14 inches.
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Time to Fish
The Salt River is great to float from June into October. Check out how the fishing changes throughout the year on our Trip Timing page.
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What’s Hatching
This river does have numerous bug hatches, and when hit at the right time can be excellent fishing. Our Hatch Chart can help you decide.
Fish You Can Catch
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Brown Trout
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